Fiona Holland
Hope in a Packet
Man alive. I’d say it’s been a rollercoaster (text book cancer lingo) but it’s actually been a lift in a mineshaft - rapid descent, no...
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A PAIN IN THE NECK AND OTHER PLACES
Ramblings of a mother, wife, cancer patient & human bean
We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that when I'm not fucking knackered
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Fiona Holland
It’s been a while….
For those of you kind enough to notice and to ask after my well-being, following an extended social media absence, thank you. To the rest...
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Why Boris made me cry
Typically, icons are known by a single name; Pele, Madonna, Bono, Diana, Prince, Ghandi. Fluffy celeb types have a mash up style...
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Treatment Break
Here’s the thing. I have a good game face. Unless you really know me, and by that I mean either carnally (just the one person for the...
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It's all shits and not that many giggles
I am so sick of being on treatment. Do not misunderstand me, I am eternally grateful to have access to a drug that wasn't widely...
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#shewaswalkinghome
When I was 20, I was followed from work by a man. I had the wherewithal to stop a random couple and say “there’s a man crouching behind a...
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Covid & Cancer - Its All A Bit B*llocks
A perspective on the collateral damage of covid as a cancer patient, as a parent & as a daughter who buried her dad in the middle of it all.
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Grief is a sneaky f*cker. Oh and my birthday
It’s my birthday today and, as anyone who’s known me a while can attest, I freakin’ love my birthday. Well I always think I love my...
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Breast lump
I’m sitting in yet another waiting room at Casa del Cov. However this isn‘t a room I am familiar with. This time it’s another part of my...
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WTF is a thyroid anyway?
Many of you may not of have even heard of the thyroid, let alone know where it is in the body or what it does. Quick science lesson: 1)...
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Telling the children I have cancer
I promised a blog on how we have handled the cancer shit show with Wakey & Pukey. Well, in the first instance, we did the really adult...
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4) Happy Third Cancerversary
Three years ago today, exactly 1 month after my Mums funeral, I got the life changing news I had cancer, not just cancer, but advanced...
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3) Hunting the MuthaLoad
So I had cancer. It was in my bones. I was stage 4. Incurable. Advanced. Proper fucked. The last person I knew who had this diagnosis...
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2) OH SHIT!
Got myself into the GP who immediately agreed to get a scan sorted. The appointment very inconveniently came through for 1730 on a...
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1) In the Beginning....
For years, I struggled. I was always short for my weight. I was passed some serious umpalumpa genes from my parents. I spent my...
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